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Idolatry, Baseball, and Your Final Resting Place
Posted August 13th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard

I am a sports fan, and at the top of my sporting passion is the love for Cardinal baseball.  My earliest memories are of listening to Jack Buck and Mike Shannon announce games on the radio talking about the exploits of Bob Forsch, Ted Simmons, and Lou Brock as I fell asleep as a kid.  [...]

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Don’t Waste Your Cancer
Posted May 8th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard

There are stories and moments in life where we have to determine if we believe God is good in the midst of absolute hardship, hard news, and suffering.  Some of us will experience a higher level of this than others, but the notion that our belief in Jesus will remove sickness, suffering, and hardship just [...]

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Prayers of Confession and Repentance
Posted May 26th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard

In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus taught his followers to pray, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.”  This is one prayer Jesus never had to ask for himself.  As the sinless Savior, Jesus never had to repent or confess sin.  On the other hand, we are fallen people desperately in need of grace [...]

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Prayers of Praise and Worship
Posted May 23rd, 2009 by Mike Hubbard

The Bible contains some incredible models of prayer given for us to learn and follow.  In the next few blogs I am going to include some of the great prayers in the Scriptures.  The book of Psalms is primarily a book of prayers, some given as songs and poems.  Since there are 150 of those, [...]

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Biblical Promises of Answered Prayer
Posted May 20th, 2009 by Mike Hubbard

Intercession and petition are part of our prayer lives.  God does encourage us to interact with him by taking our requests.  In Philippians, Paul says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.  And the peac eof God, which surpasses [...]

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